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After ten months abroad, Kirsten Hawley touched down on American soil at midnight on the night of June 18. Less than 48 hours later, she delivered the valedictory at Middletown High School. Hawley spent her senior year of high school on a Rotary International foreign exchange program in Lyon, France, where she lived with a French host family and attended a French lycee, or secondary school. "I was really ready to discover something new, to explore a new culture," Hawley said of her decision to go abroad. But after years of acing her classes in America, Hawley said she had difficulty in school for the first time this year as she struggled to understand courses taught entirely...

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After ten months abroad, Kirsten Hawley touched down on American soil at midnight on the night of June 18. Less than 48 hours later, she delivered the valedictory at Middletown High School.Hawley spent her senior year of high school on a Rotary...